Control and Correlationmarch 15, 2022 slimemoldtimemoldcybernetics, statistics

Control and Correlation – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

⌜ktb⌟@kevinbakerIf you’re interested in the history of feedback thinking before cybernetics and digital computation, this is as good place to start. It treats servo engineering, etc, as more than just a prelude to cybernetics.

(1) ⌜ktb⌟ on Twitter: “If you’re interested in the history of feedback thinking before cybernetics and digital computation, this is as good place to start. It treats servo engineering, etc, as more than just a prelude to cybernetics. https://t.co/eSLqXt5bdI” / Twitter

Also noteworthy: “It’s one of the most important things I read in graduate school. Even though it’s about the prewar period, it really helps you understand the postwar engineering moment and and think beyond cybernetics’ imperial, universalizing project.” … “One of the core arguments is that the “engineering cultures” that developed during the interwar period weren’t subsumed by cybernetics. These cultures persisted, as did their distinctive ways of understanding feedback, system boundaries, etc.”

User oppression in human-computer interaction: a dialectical-existential perspectiveGonzatto, R.F. and van Amstel, F.M.C. (2022),

User oppression in human-computer interaction: a dialectical-existential perspective – Frederick van Amstel

Cat Drop Borneo

Does the story hang together?

Gene Bellinger

Cat Drop Borneo – by Gene Bellinger – SystemsWiki’s Musings

Resources

Resources – Dalmau Consulting

Lots of interesting systems | complexity | cybernetics resources om Tim Dalmau’s refreshed site marking a true milestone of 40 years in consulting!

Erm, hmm.

System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else.

https://www.system.com/graph

Overview: https://about.system.com/about/overview

Annoucing the public beta: https://about.system.com/blog/announcing-the-public-beta-of-system

(h/t Systems Change Finland)

Where did the Eco go in Systemic Practice?

Published: Dec 9, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.28963/4.1.2

Keywords:Bateson EcoSystemic systemic therapy ecology systemic activism posthuman systemic practice

Hugh Palmer

Where did the Eco go in Systemic Practice? | Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice

Seventy years of Family Therapy, from Bateson until now. What’s new?

Seventy years of Family Therapy, from Bateson until now. What’s new? Tickets, Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

ASC Series – Seventy years of Family Therapy, from Bateson until now. What’s new?

March 20, 2021 | 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST

FREE REGISTRATION

Abstract

Over 70 years ago, cybernetic thinking helped create a radical shift in psychiatry when birthing a new branch of therapy called family therapy. Yet, today, this revolutionary way of understanding human healing, thinking, behavior, relations and “social” systems, floats on the margins of our mental health systems.  As one family therapist from decades gone by suggested, family therapy quickly became more like a stillborn child whose fascinating ideas and practices disappeared almost as soon as they arrived. Why is that? 

Some say, family therapy was ahead of its time, in an attempt to understand people and their pathologies in context with the systems in which we live. We seem unable to comprehend that we do the only thing we can do in accordance with our biology and epistemology. 

One cannot not have an epistemology, only a bad one. – Gregory Bateson

So, what have we learned after 70 years of family theories and therapies?  Where do family therapists stand in regard to these issues today? What is the role of a family therapist, and in what domains? How can cybernetic ideas orient family therapists as change agents?

During our conversation on March 20th, we will explore, with a new generation of family therapists, how they shifted back to many of the original concepts associated with family therapy and cybernetics, such as Bateson’s ideas about power and inequality. We will also explore more recent concepts associated with cybernetics that orient this movement, and how we might shift the structures that generate intersectional systems of oppression that perpetuate pathologies. 

We will leave plenty of time for all to participate in the conversation. 

Participants Bios

Dr. Robyn Jardine owns and operates Life Solutions Counseling and Family Therapy, PLLC in Dallas, TX.   As an educator, researcher, activist, and mental health professional, she focuses on social justice and racial equity through dismantling systems of oppression within the context of intergenerational transmission and the interdependent relationship between macro and micro systems.  Particularity regarding the areas of white supremacy, intergenerational social conditioning, white fragility, historical trauma, gaslighting, the process of activating communities/individuals for system change, and interracial dynamics/relationships. 

Bethany Simmons, Ph.D., LMFT-S, LPC is an Associate Professor and Program Director at California Lutheran University Counseling Psychology-MFT Program with clinical experience in adult and juvenile psychiatric hospitals, intensive outpatient programs, juvenile drug court and private practice settings. She is the founder of The Big Systems Collective (BSC), a diverse group of therapists and educators from across the United States committed to creating social justice systemic change through cybernetic action. Her current research and scholarship applies cybernetic and social constructionist theories to address oppression, social responsibility, power, privilege and social control within mental health practices and societal systems.

Jude Lombardi, lcsw, phd. is a social worker by trade. As a social worker, she primarily worked with “special needs” children and their families, which led her to cybernetics. After completing her phd. in human relations and cybernetics, what she calls humane cybernetics, she became a sociology professor. In retirement she praxis cybernetics, constructs video for work and fun, and cares for honeybees at her local arboretum. In recent years, she has come to think the only way to generate transformative change is through the performance of everyday life and the arts.

FREE REGISTRATION

President’s Series 17: Cybernetics by Cybernetics Society — President’s Series

£0 – £20

President’s Series 17: Cybernetics Tickets, Wed 13 Apr 2022 at 17:00 | Eventbrite

Raghav Rajagopalan

Aug 17, 2021

Immersive Systemic KnowingAdvancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis

SPRINGER NATURE 2020

New Books Network | Raghav Rajagopalan, “Immersive Systemic Knowing:…

Book link:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49135-2

Four ways of knowing – European School of Governance, position paper #55  by Raghav Rajagopalan

Presentation at Metaphorum 27 May 2021 – Meta Rational Ways of Knowing – Raghav Rajagopalan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMKCG-50S30

Has anyone ever seen/created a tool or canvas using Donella Meadows leverage points, which is designed to help people think about different places to intervene in a system?

(1) Thea Snow on Twitter: “Has anyone ever seen/created a tool or canvas using Donella Meadows leverage points, which is designed to help people think about different places to intervene in a system?” / Twitter

Replies include links to such

Open Resources

Resources — Radical Childcare Systems Lab

Openness has always been a key principle of our ecosystem, from 00 ventures through to Impact Hub Birmingham and #RadicalChildcare because it is vital for work to become stronger and spread, shorten the feedback cycle. It enables many to test implementations and creates opportunities beyond what we could even imagine. We try to be as open as we possibly can at every stage, and we don’t want our work to be binary, but a start point.

We feel it’s better to have a vision to hack, iterate and critique and build better than to complain about the system without re-imagining together what it could too, so this is an open invitation to use and download the resources to make your work stronger, better and broader. We hope these values will be reciprocal, and where you feel we might be able to support your work, or if it’s appropriate to credit, please do. We all stand on the shoulders of many people’s work, and no one person, organisation or solution sill tackle these complex challenges alone.

To receive a link to all our #RadicalChildcare bank of resources, including maps, infographics, research tools and references, please fill in your your details below.

Nau mai | WelcomeThis is the write up from Sam Rye’s Masters of Design (2016-2018) which bridges the worlds of environmental conservation, systems thinking and strategic design. Welcome, it’s free and open to explore.

Nau mai | Welcome – MDes, Sam Rye

Virtual Course:Introduction to Collaborative Innovation​Hawaii ST: May 16, 18 & 23, 8:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific US: May 16, 18 & 23, 11:00 pm – 2:00 pmEastern US: May 16, 18 & 23, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Introduction Collaborative Innovation, Virtual Course, 2022

see also (from Russ Gaskin):
I wanted to let you know that we’re offering our introductory course in May for folks wanting to advance collaborative systems change work.

If you know of anyone who might be interested, we’re happy to answer any questions and provide discounts for your close allies or partners. Melissa, who’s copied here, can help with that.

In the meantime, I’m happy to share some new or updated free resources from CoCreative:

• 8 Lenses for Systemic Analysis
• 100 System Interventions that are NOT Policy Change or Training
• Embracing Failure in System Change